Tabletop Reviews

I have very fond memories of Worms – especially the 1995 PlayStation One release which captivated me and my friends over many an evening, in particular because one of us suffered for six weeks with a broken leg. No Worms game has ever felt…

Politics are often quite strange with their long rambling speeches on policies that don’t make any real sense. In Vote Me, it takes this concept of weird speeches and challenges you and your friends to make random speeches on funny topics.…

Ravensburger are known for a lot of things, but mostly puzzles and board games. As such, it was a real surprise when they managed to not only land the Disney license for a card game, but actually deliver an easy-to-access and fun to play…

Calling all fellow philatelists it’s time for the Stamp Swap show. Converge on this collection convention to see who will be named the curation king (or queen) following three fast paced rounds of drafting and swapping. Watch out for those…

For readers of a certain age, Survive: Escape from Atlantis will be a core memory. With its modular island made up of bright, plastic hexagons, this 1980’s classic is a game that I remember well. In keeping with the current fashion,…

Race against your rivals to serve up a cat's supper in The Cat Mitt Game. Gimmick games come in all shapes and sizes, but I don't think a board game has ever, ever required me to don oven-mitts and try to agitate pieces out of a ball...…

I’ve heard a lot about Deep Rock Galactic, and we’ve certainly covered it here at B3 — but I’d never played it myself. Dwarves, beer, mining etc — I felt I’d seen and done it all before. But on the tabletop things hit differently. Creating…

We’ve played a large number of trivia games during our time covering tabletop games. However, Twisted History has trivia questions I’ve never been asked or wondered the answer to — and that’s its point!  Split between six eras of history,…

Go for Gold is a fast paced game of plucking matches out from under the nose of your opponents, an Olympic game of speed and dexterity, if you will. When it comes to games with card or tile-based pieces is there anything more pure than the…

Originally released in 2018, The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls has recently been revitalised via a significant expansion known as The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls: Requiem, and a whole host of smaller booster packs that add between 10 and 15…

There's always a bit of a gulf between adults and the kids when you play family trivia games. Smash Down fixes that with a find-the-world game board as well as fun finger pointers to save people from crushing fingers. Smash Down is a…

Warhammer 40,000 is an extremely intimidating setting for newcomers, I should know. We’ve all been there at one point or another, being stood staring up at rows upon rows of miniature model kits wondering “What’s all this about different…

With a well respected design team and a fantastic artist in Miguel Coimbra, Sinister Fish Games could be onto a winner with Wizards and Co. Hot on the heels of a string of great games including Villagers and Honk!, Wizards and Co retains a…

We all know by now that Roxley Games make some fantastic products, and in most cases, they are not shy about shouting it from the rooftops. Released initially as an (almost) million (Canadian) dollar Kickstarter with multiple, massively…

It’s been a while since we last reviewed a game from the Valeria universe, but whenever I’ve played a game in this series, I’ve always been fairly impressed. Whilst most of the Valeria games are card driven, Castellans of Valeria is a fully…

Imagine yourself in the shoes of a powerful lord — or Grande — in Medieval Spain. The power of the King is waning and you, along with up to four other Grande’s, are mustering your forces to succeed (or possibly overthrow) him. This is El…

Here at BigBossBattle, we are big fans of Free League Publishing, with reviews of both Tales From the Loop: The Board Game and Forbidden Lands under our belts. You can imagine my excitement then, when I heard about Mutant Year Zero: Zone…

We’ve been reviewing games from Mighty Boards for quite a few years now, with games like Petrichor, Posthuman Saga and Vengeance: Roll and Fight among them. Heck, we’ve even interviewed the legendary David Turczi in association with Mighty…

Enough milking these cow puns dry, on to the review. Herd Mentality is a party game for four plus players from Big Potato Games. In Herd Mentality you are aiming to be the first player to round up eight bovines. Achieve this by aligning…

History. You either love it or hate it. Well, that or you like very specific, niche bits of it. The main reason for that is because its so vast, but its also not relatable — people don't draw the same connections between it as they do with…